Table-leg



(No Model.)

D. N. SMITH & J. B. RAYNORI.

- TABLE LEG.

No. 290,128. 1 Patented D60. 11, 1883.

v WITNESSES UNITED A STATES PATENT OFFICEQ DAVIDN.-SMITH AND JOHN B.BAYNOR, OF MAZOMANIE, WISCONSIN.

.TABLE-LEG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,128, dated December11, 1883,

' Application filed August 31, 1883. (No model.)

To on whom it .may concern.-

Be it known that we, DAVID N. SMITH and JOHN B. RAYNOR, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Mazomanie, in the county of Dane and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTable-Legs, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to knockdown tables;

' and it consists in the adaptation and application to the head of atable-leg constructed with an angled slot or seat of an angled bracehaving as bearings a shoulder cut or otherwise formed at or near theendof each of the two rails contiguous to the leg, each end of the angledbrace being tapped with a screw-thread and provided with a nut, wherebyeach railis held separately to the leg, the leg, upon loos-- ening thenuts from pressure against the shoulders in therail, being withdrawnwith facility from its seat without detaching the angle-brace from therails, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of our improvedleg-attaching device, showing the head of the leg withdrawn from itsseat. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same cut through the planeoccupied by the angle-brace; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thehead of one of the legs, showing the slot or seat occupied by the angledbrace.

To the top of atable, A, are securely attached the rails B. At or nearthe ends of these. rails are seated the ends of an angled brace, D, eachend thereof being tapped with ascrew-thread, a, Fig. 2, upon which isseated a nut, b. A washer, d, is interposed between the nut and ashoulder, a, cut or otherwise formed at or near the ends of the rails.An angled slot, E, is cut from the top of the leg-head, and ex tendsdownwardly in planes parallel to the two outside faces of the saidleg-head, as shown in Fig. 3. This slot is occupied as a seat bythe-angled portion of the brace D, as shown in Fig. 2.

It is obvious that by tightening the nuts, which bear against theshoulders c, as hereinbefore described, the angled brace is drawninwardly, bringing with it the leg until the latter is held firmly inits seat between the ends of the rails. It is also obvious that bytightening either nut the rail in which the tightened nutis seated isheld to the leg separately from and independent of the other.

In knockdown tables heretofore in use it has been found necessary in allcases to provide a supplemental. device, either in the form of the boltcross-head, having each end fastened to the inner surfaces of the rails,or of a molded plate, for the purpose of protecting the rails duringshipment. In our device. the angled brace not only operates to clamp theleg in its seat, but it is also a substitute for the oross-head ormolded plate above mentioned when the leg is withdrawn from its seat.

We are aware that iron plates attached to the under face of thetable-top and provided with flanges for the purpose of guiding the headinto its seat, corresponding slots being cut into the head of the legfrom the top down, have heretofore been used; but no method is providedtherewith whereby the leg is clamped in its seat. ing-flange seated in agroove or slot cut into the head of the leg; but

What we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In atable, the leg providedwith an angled slot, the angled braceseated therein and provided with screw-bolts and nuts, and the rails Wedo not therefore claim a guidconstructed with openings and shoulders,

against which the nuts impinge, whereby each rail is held separately tothe leg.

2. In a table, the combination of the rails provided with seats for theends of the brace and with shoulders, as described, the angled bracehaving screw-threads tapped upon the ends thereof, and provided withnuts, and the leg having an angled slot or seat cut therein from the topdownwardly into the head in planes parallel to the two outer sides ofthe leg-head, whereby the leg may be held rigidly in position orwithdrawn from its seat between the rails without-detaching the angledbrace from the rails. I

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

DAVID N. SMITH. JOHN B. RAYNOR.

Witnesses:

A. M. SEYMOUR, A. F. CATLIN.v

